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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - MAY 2006 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S MAY 2006 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: THURSDAY, May 18th, 2006 (3rd Thursday)
Where: Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
Downtown Center
104 Washington Street
South West Corner of Wall Street Area
Downtown, New York City
** Please RSVP (not mandatory) **
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:25 PM Registration
6:25 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
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Topic: The AMANDA Open Source Enterprise Backup System
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Speaker: Ian Turner
Zmanda
INTRODUCTION:
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AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is
an Enterprise-Class Network Backup System developed by the
University of Maryland.
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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html
This will allow us to automate the registration process.
(Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
Please avoid emailed RSVPs, if at all possible.
Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. If you
registered for this meeting, please check your email for any last
minute announcements as the meeting approaches. Also make sure
any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!
Please try to RSVP as soon as possible.
Note: RSVP is not mandatory for this location, but it does help
us to properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.).
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MAIN PRESENTATION OUTLINE:
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Topic: AMANDA
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AMANDA is a popular open-source backup and archiving package.
AMANDA uses native tools, and can back up a large number of
machines running various versions of the Linux, Unix, or Windows
operating systems.
This talk will discuss the state of AMANDA, and also new project
developments. For more information, please see:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/.
The main topics to be covered are:
- What is Amanda?
- Amanda features
- Configuration
- Administration
- Future work
- More information
- Amanda Installation Demo (as time permits)
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Web Resources:
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Amanda Homepage: http://www.amanda.org
Amanda Wiki: http://wiki.zmanda.com
Amanda Forums: http://forums.zmanda.com
Zmanda Homepage: http://www.zmanda.com
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Speaker Biography:
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Ian Turner has been involved with Amanda since 1998, when he
installed it on his home computers after the sixth hard-disk crash
in three years. Amanda served his needs quite well, but there were
also itches to scratch, so in 2000, Ian started making
contributions to the Amanda code base. In that year he was accepted
as a member of the Amanda core team. Today, Ian develops Amanda
full-time, as a Zmanda engineer.
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Company Biography:
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Zmanda offers proven and cost effective open source data protection
solutions. By leveraging the open source development model, we are
able to provide our customers with the very best quality software
and significant cost savings. Our mission is to enable leading data
protection solutions such as Amanda, the world's most popular open
source backup and recovery solution, for the enterprise. These
solutions will be available at a fraction of the cost of incumbent
vendors, providing Zmanda customers with a low cost of ownership
and high return on investment. In combination with our unparalleled
support we have everything you need to keep your business up and
running. Zmanda's software, support and services provide our
customers with the peace of mind that their business will maintain
continuous operations and that they will be in compliance with
government regulations.
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Giveaways:
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O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings.
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind
enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will
continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.
Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.
Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of
our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway
(ie. most books are valued between $30 and $60)!
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Fee Schedule:
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00
Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes
"wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed,
pasta, etc), cookies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
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Directions:
Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
Downtown Center
104 Washington Street
Wall Street Area
Downtown, New York City
This building is located on the West side of the street, the
second building north of Rector Street. Cross Streets:
Between Rector (South) and Carlisle (North) Streets.
Our meeting location is in the Lower West Corner of Downtown,
North of the Battery Tunnel, South of the Downtown Hotel,
East of West Street, and West of Greenwich Street. Walking West
on Rector Street from Broadway, you pass Church, Greenwich then
Washington Streets.
There are multiple blocks of parking lots right there, between
Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at the Battery Tunnel
and extending North for a number of blocks.
Nearest mass transit stations, in order, are the '1/9' (Rector
Street), 'R/W' (Rector Street) and the '4/5' (Wall Street).
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
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2. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- AMANDA
- LAMP / PHP
- NO SPAM! (know any speakers?)
- Asterix / VoIP
- Field Trip to HP - Invited
- Are there too many Linux Distributions?
- Unix 35th Birthday Celebration (Sun has offered to host this!)
- IPsec and IPv6
- Samba
- DNS
- Unix Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf version 2
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- PKI
- GNU Development Environments
- iSCSI, Serial ATA, and other new peripheral technologies
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix related technology topics
should contact the Unigroup Board.
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3. PRIOR MEETINGS
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March 2006: The MySQL Relational Database, Version 5.0 and Beyond
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Unigroup would like to thank Hans Zaunere, from New York PHP,
for presenting his talk on MySQL. We learned about MySQL history,
MySQL's pluggable storage database engine technology (including
some political issues and history concerning some of them),
its various enterprise-class features, and some comparisons
to other open and closed source databases.
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4. LOCAL EVENTS and TRADE SHOWS
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A) SUN Solaris 10 User Group Event
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When: May 17th, 2006
Where: NYC Sun Office
Sun's Announcement:
# ==================== customer invite ================
#
# Solaris 10 Part VI has arrived! Are you ready?
#
# You've waited a long time and it's about to pay off! Several months ago,
# Sun Microsystems, Inc. covered various virtualization technologies in the
# systems space. Technologies such as Xen and the ability to run Linux
# applications on Solaris, a Containers update, specifically on patching and
# packaging, and the Development Tools for Solaris.
#
# How can we top that? Well... read on. We won't disappoint you...
# Register today for the next Solaris User Group Series, Part VI.
#
# SOLARIS 10 USER GROUP PART VI: (FORMERLY CALLED THE DEVELOPER SERIES)
# Presented by: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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# DATE:
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# Wednesday, May 17, 2006 (New York, NY)
# Thursday, May 18, 2006 (Somerset, NJ)
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# TIME: 9:00am - 4:00pm *
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# REGISTRATION:
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# Please register for one of the following locations:
# http://sunsmart.sun.com/wma/
# Event ID: techne
# Password: sun
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# LOCATIONS:
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# Wednesday May 17, 2006
# Sun Offices: New York
# 101 Park Avenue
# 4th floor: Grammercy Park Conference Room
# New York, NY 10178
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# Thursday, May 18, 2006
# Sun Offices: Somerset, NJ
# Sun Conference Room
# 400 Atrium Drive
# Somerset, NJ 08873
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# AUDIENCE:
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# IT/Technology Professionals, CXOs/CTOs, Developers, Line-of-Business
# Professionals
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# AGENDA:
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# 09:00 - 09:15am Welcome back - Ambreesh Khanna, Chief Technologist,
# WorldWide Financial Services
# 09:15 - 11:15am ZFS - Bill Moore, Senior Staff Engineer, Solaris Kernel
# Engineering
# 11:15 - 12:30pm The Niagara LDoms - Tonby Barecca, Director,
# Niagara/ROCK Software Engineering
# 12:30 - 01:30pm Lunch
# 01:30 - 02:30pm Tuning the Niagara systems for your and third-party
# applications -
# Denis Sheahan, Senior Staff Engineer, Niagara
# Architecture Group
# 02:30 - 04:00pm Aduva and Patch Management - Scott Armour, VP of
# Operations, Aduva
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# (*) Breakfast and Lunch provided.
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# Topic Descriptions
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# ZFS:
# ZFS is the next generation filesystem, characterized by Ease of Management,
# Immense Capacity, Self Healing and Performance. Bill is a kernel engineer
# who has been involved with ZFS since its inception, and will talk about its
# architecture and show demonstrations. Curious? Look at details of ZFS on the
# OpenSolaris website (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/)
#
# The Niagara LDoms
# Niagara is the codename for the UltraSPARC T1, Sun's radical CMT CPU.
# Niagara will have the ability to boot multiple individual instances of
# Solaris via a built-in hypervisor. Tony is will detail the hypervisor, and
# show roadmaps of what to expect in the future.
#
# The systems based on the Niagara CPU were announced last Q. Due to the
# unique design of the CPU, most applications scale very well across the
# multiple cores. In some instances some tuning is required. Denis is an
# expert at tuning systems to allow applications to scale well on the Niagara
# systems. He has a list of best practices that he will share with us. Some of
# his work is at http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/tnb/applications.jsp
# Interested in test driving a T1 based system? Visit
# http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/tnb/index.jsp
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# Aduva and Patch Management
# Sun recently completed the acquisition of Aduva, a leader in patch and
# change management tools for Linux and Solaris. Scott is the VP of Operations
# for Aduva, and will talk to us about the capabilities of the product and how
# Aduva fits into the bigger picture Patch Management story for Sun. Scott
# will also demonstrate Aduva's flagship product, OnStage.
#
# Register today! Seating will be on a limited basis!
B) SIA 2006 Technology Management Conference
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When: June 20-22, 2006
Where: Hilton New York
1335 Avenue of the Americas, NYC 10019.
For free exhibits registration and information visit:
http://www.sia.com/tmc2006
C) C3 Expo
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When: June 27-29, 2006
Where: Javits Convention Center
For free exhibits registration and information visit:
http://www.c3expo.com
D) NYPHPCon
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When: June 14-16, 2006
Where: The New Yorker Hotel, NYC
NYPHPCon 2006 will be three full days of sessions, tutorials,
exhibits, and networking events, focusing on the The PHP Business
Community, with two featured parallel tracks: Business Strategy
and Technical Solutions.
For information about the NY PHP Conference & Expo 2006 visit:
http://www.nyphpcon.com/
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5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s. Unigroup
is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded volunteer
organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings
throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix
User Community. Unigroup is/was also the Greater NYC Regional Area
Affiliate of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.
Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or
Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
ability to hold monthly meetings at our new downtown meeting location.
Planned regular meeting dates are: 5/18/2006, 7/20/2006, 9/21/2006...
Watch for our Special Event meetings at the various trade shows in NYC
as well as "Field Trips" to the facilities of local hardware and
software vendors.
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If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
corrections to our lists.
Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
meeting topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and
content suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer
organization and we need your assistance! Please let us know if you
can help!
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I hope to see you all at our next meeting!
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (at) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
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